GOLD OF POLAND
UP TO 70 TONS
ARRIVAL IN FRANCE
LONG ROUTE TAKEN
(Reed. Oct. 25, 2.20 p.m.) PARIS, Oct. 24,
Seventy tons of Polish gold has arrived after an adventurous journey of 6200 miles by road, rail and ship across Turkey, Rumania, Syria and the Mediterranean.
It was taken from the vaults in Warsaw in the first week of the war and carried by lorry to Rumania, surviving German air attacks en route. It was then entrained for Constanza. where a Turkish ship transported it to Syria, whence a French vessel carried it to France.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20078, 26 October 1939, Page 7
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96GOLD OF POLAND Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20078, 26 October 1939, Page 7
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